LOUISVILLE, KY (Courtesy of the Norfolk Tides) – The Norfolk Tides (24-38) split a doubleheader against the Louisville Bats (26-36) on Sunday at Louisville Slugger Field. The Tides would lose game one 6-5 in seven innings and then come back to win game two 4-0 in seven innings. Five Tides’ pitchers would combine to toss a no-hitter in game two. That is the Tides first ever seven-inning combined no-hitter. By winning the second game, Norfolk would end the week 4-2 in Kentucky and secure their first series win of the season.
Roansy Contreras, Grant Wolfram, Colin Selby, Kade Strowd, and Yaramil Hiraldo would combine to keep the Bats out of the hit column in game two of Sunday’s doubleheader. That is Norfolk’s first ever seven-inning combined no-hitter and the first no-hitter since Chayce McDermott, Nolan Hoffman, and Kaleb Ort combined for a nine-inning no-hitter on May 3, 2024, at Nashville and the first seven inning no-hitter since Steve Trachsel on May 29, 2001, vs. Ottawa on a rehab appearance. The only base runners allowed were two walks by Roansy Contreras. That is the seventh time the Bats have been no-hit in franchise history and the third time it has happened to them in a seven-inning game.
Dylan Beavers would go 5-for-7 with a double, home run, RBI, and 3 runs scored over the two games today. He would go 3-for-3 with his fifth homer of the season in the second game and record his fourth game of the year with at least three hits; his second this week (3-5 6/3). Beavers is now batting .326 on the season, good for the seventh highest in the International League…